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For those of you who believe that Hamas is a terrorist organisation and that Hamas is Israel’s problem, consider this. Hamas was only formed in 1987, but the occupation of Palestine started in 1948. This means 39 years of massacres, imprisonment and displacement. 39 years of pretexts to kill more Palestinians. If Hamas were destroyed, Israel will find another pretext to kill.

Israel’s problem is not Hamas, it is the entire Palestinian population. Don’t let yourself be deceived. Resistance is only there because of the occupation and will remain as long as the occupation continues. Israel attack on Gaza is not self defense, it is genocide. Palestine has a right to defend itself.

The Gaza Bombardment – What You’re Not Being Told

Israel doesn’t want peace. It wants land. This is what the bombardment of Gaza is about — another land grab. Another Nakba — another cruel land grab by murder and expulsion of non-Jews.

44% of Gaza has been taken by the Israelis. They call it a ‘buffer zone’, and they have expelled the people from that region into the remainder of Gaza. The population of the most densely populated place on earth has been crammed into an even smaller space.

This book is about the Palestine-Israel conflict from the perspective of an Israeli Jew. Miko Peled is the son of General Matti Peled, who is famous in Israel as a hero of the 1967 war. After leaving military service, General Peled became a professor of Arabic Literature at Tel Aviv University. He also played a prominent role as a peace activist who advocated Palestinian rights and peaceful co-existence between Israelis and the Palestinians. It is only towards the end of the book that Miko Peled tells us what brought about this change in his father.

Miko Peled, like other Israelis, served in the military. It wasn’t until his niece, Smadar, was killed in a suicide bombing attack that Miko Peled started questioning Israel’s policy towards the Palestinians. He became restless and started looking for ways to bring peace to his troubled homeland.

Thus, began his journey to know more about “the other”. The one big, major obstacle he had to overcome was fear of the Palestinians — people who he and all Israelis have been taught are their enemies. Those people wanted all Jews dead. He was gripped with fear the first ventured alone into a Palestinian town. He was convinced the Arabs would attack, beat him up and kill him — which of course, didn’t happen.

What I find most interesting and enlightening about reading this book is the non-violent resistant movement by the Palestinians — I admit that I’ve never heard of this until I read this book. What the main stream media often tell us is about the militant, terrorist Hamas who is determined to destroy Israel.